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...bars at night. Last week he stopped a convoy of trucks near his home with a carbine, rerouting it because, he said, it was making too much noise. The very next night the clatter of a Thompson submachine gun sounded near the Saigon River. Two American MPs headed toward the spot, found Cua in the middle of the street tipsily waving the Thompson...
...MPs took away the gun while Cua shouted, "I'm the mayor! I'm the mayor!" When Cua swung at them, the Americans handcuffed him and took him, protesting, to a Vietnamese police station. Brother-in-Law Loan quickly had him brought to his office to sleep it off, and next morning chewed the mayor out in no uncertain terms. But there were also Vietnamese sensitivities to be considered. U.S. Ambassador Hen ry Cabot Lodge expressed Washington's "regret" at the incident, and General Loan announced that henceforth American MPs would confine their arrests to U.S. personnel...
...mystery came news that another unhappy Pole had made his way to the West earlier in the month. Using a diplomatic passport to pass through East German border guards, 19-year-old Marek Radomski appeared at West Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie on May 5, told the American MPs on duty that he was "sick of the miserable life under Communism." The young defector's father is an attaché in Poland's embassy in East Berlin and is rumored to be chief of Polish intelligence in all East Germany...
...Hours. The man stirs himself to consciousness, sits up in bed blinking. Outside the window he sees nurses, MPs, patients in wheelchairs, the routine bustle of a U.S. military hospital in occupied Germany. He picks up a copy of Stars and Stripes. It is dated May 15, 1950, and the headlines jolt him: PRESIDENT WALLACE SPEAKS...
...Cong continue the terrorist attacks. As a result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions. The 650 youngsters who attend Saigon's American school were transported in Navy buses with steel-mesh window guards, and with armed Navy enlisted men riding shotgun. MPs patrolled the school grounds and roof with Armalite and M-14 rifles held in raised position. Barbed-wire barricades went up in front of the U.S. embassy and other key U.S. installations...